Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • James Watt

    James Watt
    James was a mechanical engineer who improved Thomas Newcomen's steam engine
  • Spinning jenny

    Spinning jenny
    James Hargreaves in 1770, created the spinning jenny made for weaving in
  • Socialism

    Socialism
    those who tended to be critical of others.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    A machine used for separating cotton from its seed
  • Interchangeable parts

    Interchangeable parts
    Parts that are for practical purpose
  • Corporations

    Corporations
    a company or group of people authorized to act as a single community
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel
    Social Gospel is a religious movement that arose in the United States in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Charles was a English geologist who is best known for his work on the theory of evolution
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
    Karl was a German philosopher who studied law at university
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo
    Hippolyte Pixii invented the first dynamo, It used a permanent magnet which was rotated by a crank
  • communism

    communism
    In the 1840s, Karl Marx, who was living in England after fleeing the authorities in the German states, where he was considered a political threat, began publishing books in which he outlined his theories for a variety of communism
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison is one of Americas greatest inventors, he developed many devices such as electric power generators.
  • Automobile

    Automobile
    Karl Benz made the first automobile in 1885
  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first plane on decemmber 17 1903.
  • assembly line

    assembly line
    Assembly line is a line in which parts are added ass a product is being passed down from start to finish